Cat Artificial Breathing

If a cat inhales blood, vomits or water as consequence of an accident or of a dip, he can stop breathing. It is necessary to send someone to seek for help and to try to apply artificial breathing to him following these steps:

1. Pull the tongue ahead and remove any thing that obstructs the mouth. In case of suffocation, support to the cat carefully with the head down by the back legs and balance him between our legs. This gets out the lungs and stimulates the breathing.
2. In other cases of accident, leave the cat where he is, lay down on the right side, and extend the head and the neck ahead to let enter the air.
3. With the mouth of the cat closed; put the hands forming a funnel around the knob of the cat and blow in his nose during approximately 3 seconds. Do a pause of 2 seconds and repeat it. Continue until the cat starts breathing by himself.

Cardiac massage
If the heart of the cat has stopped, it is necessary to give him a cardiac massage immediately.

1. With the cat in the position of recuperation, put the palm of a hand close to the left side of the cat, just behind the elbow.
2. To extend the hand, covering almost the whole chest, with the thumb in a side and other fingers in other one. "Bump" the thoracic box quickly and firmly three times and then blow air, blowing in the orifices of the nose of the cat: bump and bump and blow.
3. Repeat this sequence approximately 15-20 times per minute, until feeling the beatings and stopping getting bump. Continue with the processing mouth - nose. Do that someone accompanies us to take immediately the cat to the veterinarian.

Thrombosis iliaca
If the cat complains, he does not move the back legs, breathes badly and has the gums and the tongue bluish, can suffer a thrombosis.

1. Put the cat laying down on the straight side, pull the tongue ahead and to extend the head and the neck in order that the air enter.
2. Put the cat carefully in a container and take him immediately to the veterinarian.

Cat Electrocution (electric shock)LIt happens to a cat that bites an electrical cable with current. It can produce electrical serious burns in the mouth and the lips and, in some cases, a cardiac arrest and death.

1. Cut the electrical current before trying to take the cat. If not, use the not conductive stick of the electricity (as a broom of wood) to separate the cat of the cable or of the current.
2. If the cat is unconscious, call the veterinarian immediately. Shelter the animal and see if he has pulse and if he breathes. If it is precise, do the artificial breathing on him.
3. Take the cat at once to the veterinarian.